332–48

Conversation No. 332-48

Date: April 25, 1972
Time: 1:55 pm - 2:25 pm
Location: Old Executive Office Building

The President met with Charles W. Colson.

The President's speech
-Contents
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Vietnam
-Bombing
-Intensity
-Soviet Summit
-Washington Post editorial
-Possible cancellation
-Meetings with Henry A. Kissinger
-Soviets
-Colson's conversation with H. R. Haldeman
-John B. Connally's backgrounder
-Publicity
-Los Angeles Times
-Richard G. Valeriani
-The President's determination
-Legacy for future
-Risks to reelection and summit
-Credibility of foreign policy
-Valeriani's report
-Image of the President
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-North Vietnamese invasion
-Hawks
-Colson's conversation with Barry M. Goldwater
-Support for the President
-Goldwater's speech
-Democrats' support
-Madame Nguyen Thi Binh's letter
-Call for repudiation
-William E. Jenner

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The White House operator talked with the President at an unknown time between 1:55 and 1:59
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[Conversation No. 332-48A]

[See Conversation No. 23-67]

[End of telephone conversation]

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-Bombing
-Geroge H. Gallup poll
-Approval rating
-Gallup reaction
-Louis P. Harris poll
-Increase in approval
-Colson's conversation with Harris
-Impact on public
-Increased support

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:55 pm.

Refreshment

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:59 pm.

Vietnam
-Bombing
-Harris poll
-Haldeman's poll
-Confidentiality
-The President's speech
-Impact on approval
-Polls
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-Harris
-Colson's conversation with Harris
-Timing
-Methods
-Questions
-Sensitivity to public mood
-Gallup
-Questions
-Bias
-Proper wording


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-Success of the President's policies
-Creighton W. Abrams's report
-Public approval

Economy
-Cost of living
-Bad news
-C. Jackson Grayson, Jr.
-Corporate profits
-Decline
-Rebound
-Grayson's statement
-The President's speech
-Stock market
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-Volatility

White House staff
-Jews
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-Kissinger, William L. Safire and Herbert Stein

Manolo Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 1:55 pm.

Refreshment

Vietnam
-Colson's views
-Sanchez's reaction

Press corps

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 1:59 pm.

Vietnam
-Clark MacGregor's work

The President talked with MacGregor between 1:59 and 2:01 pm.

[Conversation No. 332-48B]

[See Conversation No. 23-68]

[End of telephone conversation]

MacGregor
-Work
-Colson's evaluation
-Knowledge of Congress

Vietnam
-The President's speech
-Colson's conversation with Harris
-Harris poll
-Albert E. Sindlinger
-Gallup poll
-Bias
-Polls
-Sindlinger Newsletter
-Newsweek
-Public support
-Compared with Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953
-Solidity
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-News reports
-Time and Newsweek
-Kissinger's trip
-Colson's conversation with Sindlinger
-Support from the President
-Harris
-Poll taken after the President's speech
-Competition with Gallup


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Campaign practices
-George S. McGovern
-Pennsylvania primary
-Edmund S. Muskie
-Pennsylvania primary
-Colson's conversation with Frank L. Rizzo

Vietnam
-Kissinger's trip to Moscow
-The President's stay at Camp David
-Press suppositions
-Leonid I. Brezhnev
-Soviet Summit
-Washington Post editorial
-Kissinger's trip
-Benefits
-Robert J. Dole's reaction
-End of war
-Negotiations
-Failure
-Resumption of Bbmbing
-Public support
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-The President's policies
-Credibility since January 25
-Public support for efforts
-White House support
-Morale
-James B. (“Scotty”) Reston
-Bombing
-Kissinger's trip to Paris
-Private talks
-Kissinger
-Brezhnev


Richard G. Kleindienst
-Confirmation
-Filibuster
-Chances
-Charles H. Percy
-Public pressure
-Edward M. Kennedy
-Opposition
-Filibuster
-Mistakes
-Aides
-Investigation of Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] files
-William J. Casey
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Kissinger’s trip
-Secrecy
-Briefing
-Camp David
-Sense of intrigue

US-Soviet relations
-Kissinger's trip
-Secrecy
-Press
-Discovery
-Location
-Paris
-Colson's discovery
-Camp David

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-Washington Post
-Kissinger's trip
-Reaction
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-Kenneth W. Clawson
-Vendetta

Press
-Los Angeles Times
-Story on Soviet trip
-Washington Post
-Coverage of Soviet trip

The President talked with Kissinger between 2:13 and 2:15 pm.

[Conversation No. 332-48C]

[See Conversation No. 23-70]

[End of telephone conversation]

Press
-Reston

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 2:15 pm.

Refreshment [?]

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 2:25 pm.

Vietnam
-The President's policies
-Public support
-Kissinger's trip
-Contacts with the President
-Brezhnev
-Press
-Misinformation
-Kissinger's trip
-Bias
-Clawson
-Hostility to press
-Reaction to Kissinger's trip
-Kissinger's trip
-Democrats
-Timing
-Phases of struggle
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-North Vietnamese invasion
-Miscalculation
-Robert C. Byrd
-Opposition to antiwar resolution
-Binh letter
-Binh letter
-Senators


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Colson left at 2:25 pm.